Out with the Old

Our carpet in the living room has been steadily getting worse and worse. It was no nasty that I couldn't stand it any more and so we ripped it out. I said that concrete would be better than our gross stained carpet. And it was, but it didn't look that great either. We wanted it to look like we cared about the appearance of our home. So I looked up staining concrete and they can do some beautiful things, but we opted for the more efficient (cheap) version and just painted it. We were going to do a checker board with white & gray. We painted it white and the next day when we walked on it, it had black feet marks on it, SO white wasn't going to work. We decided to paint the gray as our main color and then get another color for the checker board look. Once the gray was on, we just decided to leave it. Our goal is to save for wood flooring, so we didn't want to put any more work/money into this project. I found a great rug at the DI for $30 and we are slowly putting the room together. We changed where the couches are and the computer armoire so that is making the room look a lot different. We also had a lot of stuff jammed in here so we are trying to downsize. I will post some more pictures when the room is complete, but for now you can have a sneak peek.